Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...property, which the University would have used for a tenth house and for taxable office space, was put up for bids by the MTA. It was heavily emphasized in all publicity that the MTA reserved the right to reject any and all all bids. This has led to at least one theory that the yards were put up for bids only to enable the MTA to determine the vicinity of a fair market price and then to engage in individual negotiations later...
...Administration plan, others began to speak up in increasing volume. New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week attacked those theorists who contend that federal spending should be increased to stimulate the economy. Said Rockefeller before the National Association of Manufacturers' congress in Manhattan: "I completely reject these notions. Economic growth cannot be achieved by such massive Government spending. This panacea has failed every time it has been tried throughout our history." Rockefeller argued that any tax cut should be aimed at increasing industrial investment, not at beefing up consumer purchasing power...
...interest to work with undergraduate subjects. In the broad sense, however, it is fitting and natural that the Harvard intellectual community be the first to grapple with this new philosophic and practical issue and that the University of William James be given the first chance to accept or reject the educational potentialities of consciousness-expanding drugs...
Although he did not reject tonality, he prepared the way for the atonalists by introducing chords outside a composition's signature, producing a feeling of wavering between keys. He would try anything: a friend from the conservatory recalls Debussy's seating himself at the piano and banging out a succession of grinding dissonances as he attempted to imitate the sound of buses rumbling over the cobblestones of the Faubourg Poissoniere. But more important than the technique was the reticence that he restored to concert halls long accustomed to the thunders and tempests of Beethoven and Wagner. No composer...
...Finally, I agree with Cowan that the debate over artistic achievement and commitment is "an old one." But I reject the way he poses the problems, and therefore his resolution...